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Cygwin and tr settings

I use a Unix utility tr via Cygwin. I want to replace the non-alphabetical characters for '\ n', but tr also recognize accented characters as non-alphabetic (ěščřžýáíé -> \ n). Can I change this setting?

Thanks.

Solution

  • This should do it

    tr -c '[:cntrl:][:print:]' '\n'

    Depending on locale you might need to

    LANG= tr -c '[:cntrl:][:print:]' '\n'

    Or this

    tr -c $'\x01-\x7e' '\n'